R Observatory: Metrics for pulsar version 0.3.13

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

CRAN requires the check problems on this package to be fixed before 2026-08-21 or it will be archived.

pulsar

0.3.13

Parallel Utilities for Lambda Selection along a Regularization Path

0packages depend

11.3Kdownloads / year

70.6%test coverage

4/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Zachary KurtzFirst published 2026-03-1914 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Model selection for penalized graphical models using the Stability Approach to Regularization Selection ('StARS'), with options for speed-ups including Bounded StARS (B-StARS), batch computing, and other stability metrics (e.g., graphlet stability G-StARS). Christian L. Müller, Richard Bonneau, Zachary Kurtz (2016) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1605.07072.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("pulsar", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("zdk123/pulsar")

Development version from zdk123/pulsar. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-pulsar

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-pulsar

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-pulsar

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

9ERROR4OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
ERROR r-devel-windows-x86_64
ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64
ERROR r-patched-linux-x86_64
ERROR r-release-linux-x86_64
ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 8.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.27

70.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-07-27
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-30
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 2 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-20
6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,785 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 57%
References docs: 40%

Downloads

11.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,788 · ~31/day · ~938/mo

Releases R versions

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1.5K30 days

5.7K90 days

11.3K1 year

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Also on144 r2u14 autocran2.9K conda_forge

Repository

GitHub ↗ zdk123/pulsar

10Stars

9Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

87Commits

4Contributors

graphical-models

License GPL-3.0 · 87 commits · Last activity 2026-03-28

Stars over time

2024-04-11 · 102026-07-07 · 10

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/zdk123/pulsar on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (7)

methodsparallelgraphicsstatsutilstoolsMatrix (>= 1.5)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

batchtools fs checkmate orca hugeMASSclime glmnet networkclustertestthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Zachary Kurtz

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Zachary Kurtz

Author, Maintainer

Christian Müller

Author, Contributor

Contributors (1)

Christian Müller

Author, Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Christian M\u00FCller

no longer listed · 0.2.5 to 0.3.13

Package Timeline

14 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.13Latest
2026-03-29 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.12
2026-03-19 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-03-19
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-02-15
issues were not corrected in time
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.11
2023-09-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.10
2023-01-26 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-01-26
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-01-23
issues were not corrected in time
0.3.9
2023-01-08 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-01-08
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-11-25
issues were not corrected in time
0.3.8
2022-08-27 · diff ↗

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.3.7
2020-08-07 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-08-07
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-08-03
did not use suggested package 'QUIC' conditionally
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.6
2019-08-22 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.5
2019-03-07 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2018-09-02 · diff ↗
0.3.3
2018-06-12 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-06-12
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-05-17
policy violation and incompatibility to a new 'batchtools' release
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.2
2018-03-17 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2018-03-01 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-03-01
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-02-12
check errors were not corrected despite reminders ATLAS, MKL, OpenBLAS
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2.5
2016-08-04
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-19
Total releases: 14 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 230 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Kurtz, Z., & Müller, C. (2026). pulsar: Parallel Utilities for Lambda Selection along a Regularization Path (Version 0.3.13) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pulsar

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pulsar version 0.3.13 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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